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Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject, and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the most important works published in its field during the year of 2000, including hard-to-locate journal articles. Each volume also includes a complete list of the periodicals consulted.

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